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Everyone dreams of being rich but do you ever stop to think about what's considered rich and by whom? It's all relative.
Some questions to ask yourself:
1. When you were a kid, what seemed rich to you?
For me, the rich kids were the ones that lived in the good neighborhood a mile away from my ghetto neighborhood. The rich kids had 2 story houses with 2 bathrooms and 4 bedrooms. Their parents would drop them off in cars that weren't embarrassingly old and beat up. They could try out for sports because their parents could afford to pay the various fees and buy the gear. And I distinctly remember one kid that got super Mario 3 the day it came out. And I remember thinking, "I'd give anything to be as rich as that kid."
And now compared to my expectations as a 13-year-old, I AM rich.
2. What would be considered rich in a 3rd world country?
You have people that have to walk miles to fill up jugs of water. They'd give anything just to have a faucet in their house like the "rich Americans" have.
They live in structures that are smaller and not half as nice as my garage. That one blows by mind. That I have a building that's way nicer than their house, and it's just for me to park my car in. How is that not rich?
3. What's your "two chicks at the same time?"
In office space, there's a brilliant moment where Lawrence says if he had a million dollars he'd do two chicks at the same time, and Peter replies, "You don't need a million dollars for that."
And I think we should ask ourselves a similar question. What would really make you feel rich? What would make you happy?
For me I'd feel rich if I didn't have to work anymore. But I don't necessarily need to win the lottery for that. People in the FIRE community are finding ways to retire early all the time, and most of them aren't rich.
So by my own definition, I'm not rich in this regard yet, but it's nice to know that I could be if I wasn't married to a woman that spends too much.
So how about you, shermanos? Are you richer than you thought you were yesterday?
Some questions to ask yourself:
1. When you were a kid, what seemed rich to you?
For me, the rich kids were the ones that lived in the good neighborhood a mile away from my ghetto neighborhood. The rich kids had 2 story houses with 2 bathrooms and 4 bedrooms. Their parents would drop them off in cars that weren't embarrassingly old and beat up. They could try out for sports because their parents could afford to pay the various fees and buy the gear. And I distinctly remember one kid that got super Mario 3 the day it came out. And I remember thinking, "I'd give anything to be as rich as that kid."
And now compared to my expectations as a 13-year-old, I AM rich.
2. What would be considered rich in a 3rd world country?
You have people that have to walk miles to fill up jugs of water. They'd give anything just to have a faucet in their house like the "rich Americans" have.
They live in structures that are smaller and not half as nice as my garage. That one blows by mind. That I have a building that's way nicer than their house, and it's just for me to park my car in. How is that not rich?
3. What's your "two chicks at the same time?"
In office space, there's a brilliant moment where Lawrence says if he had a million dollars he'd do two chicks at the same time, and Peter replies, "You don't need a million dollars for that."
And I think we should ask ourselves a similar question. What would really make you feel rich? What would make you happy?
For me I'd feel rich if I didn't have to work anymore. But I don't necessarily need to win the lottery for that. People in the FIRE community are finding ways to retire early all the time, and most of them aren't rich.
So by my own definition, I'm not rich in this regard yet, but it's nice to know that I could be if I wasn't married to a woman that spends too much.
So how about you, shermanos? Are you richer than you thought you were yesterday?
